In an exclusive interview, the head of the UN's nuclear agency says it will demand Iran allow access to a key military site—even if it escalates tensions.
DALLAS (March 12, 2012) - A respected American nuclear scientist at the University of California at Berkeley says Iran, as all countries, has a right to develop nuclear energy as a source of clean and inexpensive power, and that loose talk of stopping ...
For the second year running, a unique event took place in the Palestinian town of Bethlehem this week. Christian evangelicals that many consider as most ardent supporters for Israel (often more so than many Israelis) were guests of a Palestinian...
By HERB KEINON By Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post With the life-disrupting rocket fire on the South in its fourth day, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke for the first time Monday about expanding Israel's military operations inside the Gaza ...
The fight for women's voting rights has rarely been given as dramatic a treatment as in Iron Jawed Angels. Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) and Frances O'Connor ...
Directed by Katja von Garnier. With Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston, Frances O'Connor. Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage ...
They are expected to heat up even more in Washington, DC, this week when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to release new rules for coal-burning power plants that limit the amount of pollution new facilities can emit.
Have they been stressed out, these fish, by global warming? Ken Jeffries: I study the Fraser River system in BC, and the mean summer temperature has gone up about two degrees over the past 60 years.
His work on ozone depletion made Mr Rowland a prominent voice for scientists concerned about global warming. "Isn't it a responsibility of scientists, if you believe that you have found something that can affect the environment, isn't it your ...
Today's climate change is a fact. Scientific data has established that the climate system is growing warmer and long-term changes to the climate are expected.
Now as the Obama administration's solicitor general, Verrilli faces what for any lawyer would be the challenge of a lifetime: persuading at least five Supreme Court justices to uphold the president's overhaul of the nation's health care system.
By David Jackson, USA TODAY President Obama called Afghanistan counterpart Hamid Karzai today to "express his shock and sadness" at the shooting deaths of 16 Afghanistan civilians by a US soldier, the White House announced.
The rapid retreat ofglaciersall over the world is a threat to insects that live in streams and rivers fed by melt water. The rapid retreat ofglaciersis one of the most visible signs of Earth's changing climate, but the disappearance of the ice is...
Greenland'sice sheetis more sensitive to global warming than previously thought and may already be approaching a critical threshold, researchers in Spain and Germany found.